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City in the Roman province of Isauria, Asia Minor
Cestrus
was a city in the
Roman province
of
Isauria
, in
Asia Minor
. Its placing within Isauria is given by
Hierocles
,
Georgius Cyprius
, and Parthey's (
Notitiae episcopatuum
).
[1]
While recognizing what the ancient sources said,
Le Quien
supposed that the town, whose site has not been identified, took its name from the
River Cestros
and was thus in
Pamphylia
.
[2]
Following Lequien's hypothesis, the 19th-century annual publication
Gerarchia cattolica
identified the town with "Ak-Sou", which Sophrone Petrides called an odd mistake, since this is the name of the River Cestros, not of a city.
[1]
Bishops
[
edit
]
Bishop Epiphanius of Cestrus was present at the
Council of Chalcedon
in 451, and subscribed the joint letter of the bishops of Isauria to the
emperor
Leo I the Thracian
in 458 concerning the killing of
Proterius of Alexandria
.
[2]
[3]
[4]
The
Jacobite
Michael the Syrian
reports that another, Elpidius, was a partisan of
Severus of Antioch
.
[1]
No longer a residential bishopric, Cestrus is today listed by the
Catholic Church
as a
titular see
.
[5]
References
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]
- ^
a
b
c
Sophrone Petrides, "Cestra"
in
Catholic Encyclopedia
(New York 1908)
- ^
a
b
Le Quien, Michel
(1740).
Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus secundus, in quo Illyricum Orientale ad Patriarchatum Constantinopolitanum pertinens, Patriarchatus Alexandrinus & Antiochenus, magnæque Chaldæorum & Jacobitarum Diœceses exponuntur
(in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. cols. 1025?1026.
OCLC
955922747
.
- ^
Raymond Janin,
v. Cestros
, in
Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Geographie ecclesiastiques
, vol. XII, Paris 1953, col. 253
- ^
Pius Bonifacius Gams,
Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae
, Leipzig 1931, p. 438
- ^
Annuario Pontificio 2013
(Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1
), p. 868